Despite being busy working on my solo MFA thesis show coming on January 31st (details coming soon), I'm excited to announce that I will be attending the Black Portraiture[s]: The Black Body in The West conference in Paris from January 17 - 20, 2013.

This is the fifth in the series of conferences organized by Harvard University and NYU since 2004. Black Portraiture[s] explores the ideas of the production and skill of self-representation, desire, and the exchange of the gaze from the 19th century to the present day in fashion, film, art, and the archives.